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March 9–15, 2018 Your Neighborhood — Your News® FREE SERVING BAY RIDGE & DYKER HEIGHTS Golden: ‘Full body scanners’ DÉJÀ VU ALL at schools BY JULIANNE MCSHANE Call it body politics. Bay Ridge-based tech and education boffi ns are sound- OVER AGAIN! ing the alarm after state Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) announced his legislation Narrows Senior Center faces another threat of early ouster calling for body scanners in schools. BY JULIANNE MCSHANE ian building nearly three they successfully protested time at 1 pm on March 23, on But scanners would do They’re ousting the oldsters weeks before the June move- an earlier plan to kick them 63rd Street between 12th and nothing to deter an assault early — again! out date the seniors secured out before the center’s lease 13th avenues, after a snow- weapon-wielding shooter Catholic Charities is forc- from the Sisters of Mercy , a runs out. storm forced them to postpone from attacking a ing the seniors of the belea- rep from the charity told the The seniors and their sup- their original date of March 8. school, accord- guered Narrows Center out of oldsters when he visited the porters now plan to protest “We’re not happy,” said ing to one for- Dyker Heights’ Angel Guard- center just two weeks after the early move for a second center stalwart Stella Varri- mer teacher, ale. “I believe we should stay who added because we were told we could that the tech- stay until June.” nology would Catholic Charities’ chief ex- instead infringe ecutive offi cer, Monsignor Al- on students’ rights fred LoPinto, visited the center and make them feel targeted. on Feb. 16 and told the seniors “I think it’s totally against they would have to move the students’ civil liberties, and center to the organization’s it’s framing children as crim- Monsignor Joseph Stedman inals,” said Genna Goldsobel, Residence in Borough Park by who lives in Golden’s district May 15 — nearly three weeks and taught special-ed at a Gra- before the June 4 end of the vesend high school. “It’s creat- center’s lease. ing more stress and anxiety.” The Sisters of Mercy had Golden introduced legis- tried unsuccessfully to force lation on March 7 asking for the center out by early Feb- funding for unobtrusive threat ruary , but backed down after detection systems — which he the seniors rallied outside the called “smart scanners” — in Angel Guardian home on Feb. schools, subway stations, and 2, promising the seniors that entertainment venues state- they could stay until their wide . lease was up. Golden’s reps did not re- LoPinto also implied that spond to repeated requests for Catholic Charities was speed- clarifi cation on exactly what ing up the move to the new lo- kind of scanner technology cation on 53rd Street between he was referring to, but one lo- Ninth Avenue and Fort Hamil- cal tech expert said that based ton Parkway before the Sisters off the limited information he require it because out of legal provided, Golden was likely convenience. referring to a system that uses Pining for victory “We’re going to try to be millimeter-wave “advanced ahead of [the Sisters’] timeline imaging technology ” — the Young scouts cheer on the racers at the annual Pinewood Derby at Kings Plaza Shopping Mall on March and there are legal reasons same kind the federal Trans- 3. For more, see page 4. 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The enormous exhibition displays more than 300 artifacts from the late rock History-loving Bay Ridge lawyer shows off mini Civil War museum at offi ce icon’s five-decade career, including his instru- ments, costumes, writings and more. “David Bowie is” got its title because the polymorphous singer, actor, and artist David Bowie is so many things, said the curator of the London museum that initi- ated the project. “It’s a statement and an unfinished sentence because it can’t be finished,” said Victoria Broackes, of the Victoria and Albert Museum. “It’s an answer in which everybody brings their own.” BY JULIANNE MCSHANE “David Bowie is” shows off a treasure trove from the Thin White Duke’s personal archive, including original costumes, handwritten music, set designs, photos, and album artwork. Once you enter the exhibit, on the Museum’s fifth floor, you imme- diately see Bowie’s name lit up in bright, white lights. Many of the signs, placards, and images He’s Brooklyn’s attorney gen- throughout the exhibit are orange, a steady theme throughout Bowie’s long career, said the Museum’s chief designer. “Throughout Bowie’s album covers, one color stands out more than others: orange,” said Matthew Yokobosky, pointing to the orange lightning bolt eral! painted on Bowie’s face for the “Aladdin Sane” album cover. Each section covers a different era of Bowie’s career, with a different attempt to complete the title: Next to a collection of this stage costumes, a sign reads “David Bowie is making himself up.” A Bay Ridge attorney and Another, beside a series of photos, reads “David Bowie is floating in a most peculiar way.” Some of the coolest artifacts in the collection are a banjo that Bowie played on the BBC in 1981, the Union Jack coat he wore on the cover of his “Earthling” album, stage costumes from the “Ziggy Civil War buff commands a col- Stardust” tour, and the handwritten sheet music for the guitar and violin parts to “Space Oddity.” The Brooklyn Museum version of the show also features some objects not included at its previous stops, including lyric sheets and set lists. And the exhibit is more than a visual tour lection of more than 10,000 min- of Bowie’s career — each visitor gets a pair of headphones that plays Bowie’s music hits and snippets from his interviews, with the audio chang- ing depending on where you are in the room. For All the young boots: The exhibit “David Bowie is” at the Brooklyn Museum includes photos and example, when you approach the slightly worn, yel- artwork from throughout the artist’s career, including this image from 1973. Masayoshi Sukita Continued on page 54 iature military fi gurines poised in the midst of famous battles — Your entertainment and even showcases about 4,000 guide Page 49 of them at his Fifth Avenue law fi rm, Connors and Sullivan, be- tween Bay Ridge Parkway and Police Blotter ..........................8 74th Street. Michael Connors Letters ....................................34 said his interest in collecting Rhymes with Crazy ............36 soldiers began when he was a Harbor Watch .......................45 child, and it revived when he had his own son. “When I was a kid, I was always interested in toy sol- diers,” said the attorney. “And then for my son’s third birth- day, we gave him a set, and I said, ‘I didn’t know they still made these.’ So I got on the In- ternet and started collecting.” The 22-year-old collection — which he estimates to be HOW TO REACH US worth $300,000 — is distrib- HISTORY BUFF: (Above) Attorney uted throughout his Ridge Mail: and Civil War enthusiast Michael home and his fi rm’s four other Connors poses with his Irish Bri- Courier Life offi ces on the distant isles of gade display inside his Fifth Av- Manhattan and Staten Island Publications, Inc., enue law fi rm. (Right) Connors’s and the faraway borough of 1 Metrotech Center North collection also features Brooklyn’s 10th Floor, Brooklyn, Queens, said Connors, who’s also the president of an orga- own 14th Regiment. N.Y. 11201 nization full of like-minded Photos by Tom Hilton General Phone: history buffs, the Civil War (718) 260-2500 Roundtable of New York . the Union, the 54th Regiment News Fax: Many of the soldiers are Massachusetts Volunteer In- (718) 260-2592 arranged to depict specifi c fantry. 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